No audio output from Ardour 7.5.0 in Debian 11

duwaar · September 10, 2023, 8:38pm

I have used a few different DAWs in the past, but I am new to Ardour. I installed the latest version recently, but I have not been able to get audio playback to work. I have looked at similar posts in the Ardour forums and followed the suggestions, but none of those have worked. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

My setup:

Ardour 7.5.0
Debian 11
Output of $ uname -a:

Linux Vesta 5.10.0-25-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.191-1 (2023-08-16) x86_64 GNU/Linux

MacBook Air, late 2015

Notes:

I have previously installed and used JACK and QJackCtl on this machine, so I may have changed some settings that are causing problems now, but I am not sure what they would be.

What I have tried:

Window > Audio Connections
- Sources > Busses
- Destinations > Hardware
- Screenshot:
  
  ardour_audio_connections1440×900 94.6 KB
Window > Audio/MIDI setup
- Check that ALSA is the selected audio system.
Run alsamixer in bash command prompt to check that none of the sliders are muted.
Use headphone jack instead of builtin speakers.
Check level indicators and feedback indicator to make sure audio data is playing when I click the “Play” button.

Logs after opening Ardour:

2023-09-10T13:01:13 [INFO]: AlsaAudioBackend: adjusted output channel count to match device.
2023-09-10T13:01:13 [INFO]: ALSA slave ‘hw:PCH,0’ added
2023-09-10T13:01:13 [INFO]: Scanning folders for bundled LV2s: /opt/Ardour-7.5.0/lib/LV2
2023-09-10T13:01:14 [INFO]: xjadeo version: 0.8.12
2023-09-10T13:01:15 [INFO]: harvid version: 901
2023-09-10T13:01:16 [INFO]: Loading menus from /opt/Ardour-7.5.0/etc/ardour.menus
2023-09-10T13:01:16 [INFO]: Loading user ui scripts file /home/elaine/.config/ardour7/ui_scripts
2023-09-10T13:01:16 [INFO]: Loading plugin order file /home/elaine/.config/ardour7/plugin_metadata/plugin_order
2023-09-10T13:01:17 [INFO]: Loading history from /home/elaine/Documents/Ardour_projects/midi_keyboard_test/midi_keyboard_test.history

Build Configuration:

Build documentation: False
Debuggable build: False
Export all symbols (backtrace): False
Install prefix: /usr
Strict compiler flags: []
Internal Shared Libraries: True
Use External Libraries: False
Library exports hidden: True
Free/Demo copy: False

ALSA DBus Reservation: True
Architecture flags: None
ARM NEON support: False
Aubio: True
AudioUnits: False
Build target: x86_64
Canvas Test UI: False
Beatbox test app: False
CoreAudio: False
CoreAudio 10.5 compat: False
Debug RT allocations: False
Debug Symbols: False
Denormal exceptions: False
Dr. Mingw: False
FLAC: True
FPU optimization: True
FPU AVX512F support: False
FPU AVX/FMA support: True
Futex Semaphore: True
Freedesktop files: False
Libjack linking: weak
Libjack metadata: True
Lua Binding Doc: False
Lua Commandline Tool: True
LV2 UI embedding: True
LV2 support: True
LV2 extensions: True
LXVST support: True
Mac VST support: False
NI-Maschine: False
OGG: True
Phone home: True
Process thread timing: False
Program name: Ardour
Samplerate: True
PT format: True
PTW32 Semaphore: False
Threaded WaveViews: True
Translation: True
Unit tests: False
Use LLD linker: False
VST3 support: True
Windows VST support: False
Wiimote support: False
Windows key: Mod4><Super

PortAudio Backend: False
CoreAudio/Midi Backend: False
ALSA Backend: True
Dummy backend: True
JACK Backend: True
PulseAudio Backend: True

Buildstack: 0a79299
Mac i386 Architecture: False
Mac ppc Architecture: False
Mac arm64 Architecture: False

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Linker flags: [‘-L/home/ardour/linux-x86_64-v5/gtk/inst/lib’]

paul · September 10, 2023, 9:20pm

If the master bus meter moves during playback, then try connecting master out to all eight of your device outputs.

You’re using a builtin Intel HDA chipset for audio, and these sometimes end up with very surprising mappings between channels and input/output jacks. I had a laptop where what the chipset called outs 1 and 2 appear on the jacks for channels 5 & 6.

duwaar · September 10, 2023, 9:29pm

Ah, weird. I tried that, and still no sound.

Out of curiosity, I also tried connecting just the audio track to all the hardware outputs, but that didn’t work either.

paul · September 10, 2023, 9:29pm

Does the master meter move?

duwaar · September 10, 2023, 9:31pm

Yes, the master meter moves when I play the track.

paul · September 10, 2023, 10:08pm

With Ardour running, open a terminal window and run this command:

cd /tmp && wget https://ardour.org/files/adevices.sh && bash ./adevices.sh

Paste the output here. It will not alter your system.

duwaar · September 10, 2023, 10:29pm

Here it is:

–2023-09-10 15:26:28-- https://ardour.org/files/adevices.sh
Resolving ardour.org (ardour.org)… 54.235.123.47
Connecting to ardour.org (ardour.org)|54.235.123.47|:443… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 2249 (2.2K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘adevices.sh’

adevices.sh 100%[=============================================================================>] 2.20K --.-KB/s in 0s

2023-09-10 15:26:28 (64.9 MB/s) - ‘adevices.sh’ saved [2249/2249]

========================================
Part I: ALSA
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version k5.10.0-25-amd64.

Card 0 (HDMI):

Playback Device 3 (HDMI 0):

Subdevice 0 (hw:HDMI,3,0):
used by: ArdourGUI (PID 34084)
access: MMAP_INTERLEAVED
format: S32_LE
subformat: STD
channels: 8
rate: 44100 (44100/1)
period_size: 1024
buffer_size: 2048

Playback Device 7 (HDMI 1):

Subdevice 0 (hw:HDMI,7,0):
closed

Playback Device 8 (HDMI 2):

Subdevice 0 (hw:HDMI,8,0):
closed

Playback Device 9 (HDMI 3):

Subdevice 0 (hw:HDMI,9,0):
closed

Playback Device 10 (HDMI 4):

Subdevice 0 (hw:HDMI,10,0):
closed

Card 1 (PCH):

Playback Device 0 (CS4208 Analog):

Subdevice 0 (hw:PCH,0,0):
closed

Recording Device 0 (CS4208 Analog):

Subdevice 0 (hw:PCH,0,0):
used by: ArdourGUI (PID 34084)
access: MMAP_INTERLEAVED
format: S32_LE
subformat: STD
channels: 2
rate: 44100 (44100/1)
period_size: 1024
buffer_size: 2048

========================================
Part II: jack processes

paul · September 10, 2023, 10:30pm

You’ve told Ardour to use your screens for audio output. Was that intentional?

duwaar · September 10, 2023, 10:39pm

Lol, no!
Some kind of system default I set up previously, perhaps? IDK.
How can I change it?

paul · September 10, 2023, 10:40pm

Window > Audio/MIDI Setup

Under some conditions you will also be presented with this dialog at startup.

duwaar · September 10, 2023, 10:45pm

I see that now. I ignored those before, because they are greyed-out.
ardour_audio-MIDI_setup
And after messing around, I can see that the controls become available only after I click “Stop” in the Audio/MIDI Setup window. Changing the output device to “HDA Intel PCH” and then starting it again solved the problem. I have sound! Thank you!

system · December 11, 2023, 8:05am

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